Hand bag



NOV. 5, 1929. J, N LQWE 1,734,587

HAND BAG Filed July 18, 1927' 2 Sheets-Sheet l ATTORNEY NOV. 5, 1929. 1 NI LOWE 1,734,587

l HAND BAG Filed July 18, 1927 2 sheets-sheet 2 INVENTOR cfasfPA/ l 01,46

ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 5, 1929 PATENT OFFICE JOSEPH N. LOWE, F NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAND BAG .Application filed July 18,

This invention relates to a hand bag, preferably of the type such as is used for carrying ladies hats, wearing apparel, toilet articles, and the like, and preferably to a bag specially adapted for containing wet articles, such as a wet bathing suit.

To this end the invention broadly consists in a hand bag provided with an inside pouch which is of ample size to occupy a substantial portion of the interior of the bag when filled,

the pouch bein preferably composed of flexible waterproo material so that a wet bathing suit or the like, or any other article which it may be desired to place in the pouch,

may be placed and confined therein and kept separate from other articles which may be placed between the pouch and the walls of the bag.

Preferably the inside pouch is collapsible 2u so that it may be expanded to almost if not entirely occupy the full capacity of the interior of the bag, or the pouch may be collapsed to smaller proportions so as to occupy less ofthe interior, depending upon the size of the article or articles placed in the pouch.

Other articles may then be placed in the remaining space of the bag which is around the pouch, and if the pouch is entirely filled there will still be some relatively small space around the pouch.

The pouch is preferably provided with means for completely closing its mouth, so that when and if the pouch contains a bathing suit, for example, which is not yet dry, the contents of the pouch will be kept isolated from the contents of the bag which are around the pouch.

The above being some of the advantages and objects of the present invention, they same consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and then claimed with reference to the accompanying drawings illustrating. a preferred embodiment of the invention in which,

Figure 1 is a. perspective view of the preferred form of hand bag embodying the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a perspectivewiew of such bag 1927. Serial No. 206,568.

showing the cover open and disclosing the pouch within the bag;

Fig. 3 is an enlarged cross-sectional view of the improved bag, showing both the bag and the pouch open;

Fig. 4 is a still further enlarged section which is broken for that purpose, so as to clearly illustrate the construction of the poch and its arrangement within the bag; an

Fi 5 is a detail view of a hookless fastening or the pouch.

Obviously the bag may have any desired shape, the shape shown in the drawing being the cylindrical shape of the hand hat bags which are commonly used today, and the particular bag and handle illustrated is that forming the subject-matter of my copending application Serial N o. 199,749, led June 18, 1927. The illustrated bag is therefore but one of the possible shapes and kinds of bags to which the present improvements are applicable.

Briefly, the illustrated bag comprises a main wall or band 11 and side Walls 12, 13, the wall12 being the bottom one when the bag is resting and the wall 13 the cover wall. Wall 11 is provided with a lining 14, and sides 12, 13 are respectively provided with linings 15, 16. The linings 14, 15 are of suitably thin fabric, and the lining 16 while designated as such is not necessarily a lining, and will be described later on as it forms a special feature of the present invention.

As in my aforesaid application the wall 11 has a free edge 17, which with the cover formed by the end wall 13 provides a mouth for the bag. Preferably, the bag is provided with a folded strip 18 enclosing a cord 19 and whichstrip is located between the inturned edges of the walls 11 and 12, the said inturned edges being overlapped by a binding 20 secured thereto by stitching 20a' which passes through the folded strip 18. Preferably, stretching means such as a ring or hoop 21 may be employed for holding the side wall 12 taut and smooth, or the side wall 13 taut and smooth if the entire cover formed thereby may be opened out, instead of only partially opened out as shown herein.

The cover formed by the side wall 13 has sewed thereto a tape 22, and the wall 11 is provided with a linishing strip 23 stitched thereto and to which in turn is stitched another tape 24, the tapes 22 and 24 being thus arranged in proximity to the mouth et' the bag. The tapes 24, 22 are respectively provided with fastening members 25, 26 for mutual engagement in the nature of a hookless metal fastening means when a slide 27 provided with a iinger-piece 28 is operated. A cardboard or fiber board stiffening strip or strips 29 is located between the wall 1l and its lining so as to reinforce and stiften the wall 11.

The improvements herein reside in the pouch 3() within the bag. This pouch may be et' any suitable construption or material but preferably rubberized or waterproot'ed Jfabric, the bottom or" which has herein been identitied as lining 16. rlhe exible pouch bottom or lining 16 is provided with an upwardly and inwardly turned over and folded edge portion 31, and the flexible wall 30 et i the pouch is also provided with an upwardly and inwardly turned over and folded edge portion 309-, these two edge portions being turned over the reinforcing or expansion ring or hoop 21. l.Viren the wall 30 or' the pouch is of Waterproof material the bottom 16 is preferably et similar material, and the tolded in edge portions 30u and 3l lie in the seam within the binding 20, so that the stitching 2Oa also passes through. The parts are usually seemed together before the ring or hoop 2l is inserted; lThe said ring or hoop not only keeps taut the ilexible material ot the bag side 12 but that of the pouch bottom 16, and at the same time provides means for firmly holding the pouch 30 in the bag.

TPouch 30 is provided with an outer end wall 32, forming a cover preferably of waterproof material, adjacent the cover 13 of the bag, which cover 32 is adapted to provide a mouth portion to the pouch, between the cover 32 and the wall 30 of the pouch. A binding 33 passes around the outer edge of the pouch wall 30and the cover wall 32, and where the mouth of the pouch is provided the said binding passes over a tape 34 which is stitched to the pouch wall and cover through the medium of stitching 35 which passes through the binding 33. A second tape 36 projecting beyond a securing strip 37 is secured with said strip to the pouch wall 30 by lines of stitching 38, so that the two tapes 34, 36 define the mouth portion of the pouch. As shown more clearly in Fig. 5, short reinforcing end strips 39 are stitched to the pouch at the ends of the two tapes 34, 36, and a loop 40 is provided adjacent each crossconnecting strip 39, so that a loop may be held by one hand of an operator while a slide and finger-piece may be manipulated in well known manner to either mutually engage or disengage a series of fastenings 41 on the tape 34 and another series of fastenings 42 on the tape 36.

it will be seen from the above description that a unique combined hand bag and pouch are provided in which the pouch is preferably composed entirely ot' waterproof material, the pouch being preferably collapsible and hence expansible, according to the size of the bathing suit or other articles which may be placed in the pouch. lt will be seen that preferably the combined bag and pouch are so arranged that the pouch is intimately incorporated with the bag, that is to say, the seam which connects the main wall et the bag with the side wall thereotl is the same seam in which is secured the edges of the pouch wall 30 and bottom wall 16. Preferably the diameter of the pouch is such as to ing 2() which surrounds the bottom ot' the pouch, so that the diameter of the pouch throughout will be but slightly less than the diameter ot the enclosing wall ll of the bag; and preferably the height of the pouch wall 3() above the bottom el the bag is such that when the pouch is fully expanded, as shown in l? ig. 3, the cover 32 of the pouch will lie just beneath the cover of the bag. it the pouch is made of the large dimensions shown, there would still be considerable space between it and the inner surface of the bag proper in which to place various desired articles.

lt will furthermore be seen that if and when the bag and pouch are provided with hookless fastenings, it is a very sim le matter to quickly open the cover of the ag and to open the pouch as both series of hookless fastenings are adjacent and opposite each other when the pouch is distended. When the pouch is to be opened or closed cover 13 may be raised to the full height shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the user of the bac' may then take hold of one of the loops 40 1n one hand and rest the other hand on the stillened outer wall 11 of the bag to operate the hookless fastening means of the pouch. lt will be seen that in opening or closing the mouth of the pouch in this manner the hand which operates the hookless fastening may be guided along the stiff edge 17 of the body portion of the bag which, being stiiened, furnishes a suitable support and guide for such hand. This greatly facilitates the ease of operation of the hookless fastening means of the pouch.

According to my aforesaid application, Serial No. 199,749, there Ais provided a onepiece handle 43 having edge bindings 44, and one end of the handle is stitched in the seam at the bottom of the bag by the line of stitching 20a while the other end of the handle extends underneath. the finishing strip 23 where it is stitchedto the body of the bag.

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` tible of more or less modification, as parts may be omitted, added, and substituted Without departing from the spirit of the invention as expressed by the scope of the appended claims.

lVhat I claim as new, is:

1. In combination with a hand bag having a mouth, and fastening means for closing the mouth, a collapsible pouch secured Within the bag and having a mouth, the pouch being of slightly less height than the bag, and fastenings for the pouch-mouth which may be.

moved to an operative position adjacent the mouth of the bag.

2. In combination with a hand bag having a mouth, and hookless fastening means for the mouth, 1 collapsible pouch secured Within the'bag and having a mouth, and hookless fastening means for the pouch-mouth which may be moved to an operative position directly adjacent to and opposite the fastening means of the bag mouth.

El. In combination, a hand bag, the main body portion of which has comparatively stift' walls, a cover for the main portion, and a collapsible pouch Within the bag having such capacity When filled as to occupy substantially the entire interior of the bag, the mouth of the pouch then being located in uxtaposition to the cover.

4. In combination, a hand bag, the main body portion of which has comparatively stift' walls, and a cover for the main portion, and a collapsible pouch within the bag having such capacity when lled asr to occupy substantially the entire interior of the bag, the mouth furnished by the cover and the adjoining free edge of the main body portion being provided with a fastening means, and the pouch having a mouth which may be moved adjacent the bag-mouth, and a series of hookless fastenings and their operating slide for the pouch-mouth, whereby the hand may rest along the stiff free edge of the bag when operating the slide of hookless fastenb ings of the pouch-mouth.

5. In combination, a cylindrical hand bag, the main body portion of which has comparatively stiff walls, and a disk-shaped cover for the main portion, and a collapsible 'pouch within the bag comprising a peripheral wall having one edge secured around the marginal portion of the wall of the bag op osite the cover, and such bag Wall forming t e bottom4 ot' the pouch, the pouch having such capacity when filled as to occupy substantially the entire interior of the bag.

6. In combination, a hand bag having a lining of Waterproof material on one Wall,

'37 and a pouch comprising a peripheral wall secured at one edge in the bag and com osed of waterproof material, the Waterproo material in the bag providing one Wall of the pouch, and the pouch being collapsible toward such Wall independently of the bag.

7. In combination, a hand bag having a lining of Waterproof material on one wall, and a pouch comprising a peripheral Wall secured in the bag and composed of Waterproof material, the waterproof material in the bag providing one Wall of the pouch, said bag- Wall being seamed to the adjoining portion of the surrounding Wall of the bag, and the edge portions of the lining and the peripheral Wall being secured in the seam.

8. In combination, a hand bag havin opposite front and rear side walls, the ront Wall providing a cover, a relatively collapsible pouch Within the bag and having such capacity When lled as to occupy substantially the entire interior of the bag, the pouch comprising a peripheral Wall and having an outer mouth positionable in juxtaposition the cover and the inner edge of the peripheral Wall secured Within the bag so as to be at the marginal portion of the rear Wall.

9. In combination, a hand bag having opposite front and rear side walls, the front Wall providin a cover, a relatively collapsible lpouch o Waterproof material Within the ag and having such capacity when filled as to occupy substantially the entire interior of the bag, the pouch comprising a peripheral Wall and having an outer mouth positionable adjacent the cover and the inner edge of the peripheral Wall secured Within the bag so as to be at the marginal portion of the rear Wall, the rear bag-Wall having a Waterproof lining to provide a Waterproof bottom for the pouch. l0. A hand bag provided with an interior pouch secured around the marginal portion of the Wall of the bag, and the bag and pouch having opposite, adjacent, mouths, the lace of securement of the pouch to the bag ing the portion of the pouch which is remote from its mouththe pouch being collapsible from its mouth inwardly into the bag, and the 'pouch having such capacity when filled as to occupy substantially the interior space of the g JOSEPH N. LO'WE..v 

